From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piet van Oostrum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion) Date: 27 Apr 2004 17:27:45 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <408CF39D.2000201@math.ku.dk> <5C656B28-9785-11D8-ACD7-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> <6654-Tue27Apr2004084509+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083083084 22755 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 16:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 18:24:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIVNo-0003Xu-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:24:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIVNo-0001E7-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:24:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIV9Z-0001WQ-Fk for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:09:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIV03-0008JN-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIUrh-0006Ke-Ie for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.211.81.146] (helo=ordesa.cs.uu.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIUTG-0001HF-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Ordesa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ordesa.cs.uu.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5602A16E4C7 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:27:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50.4 (via feedmail 8 I) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22249 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22249 >>>>> "Jan D." (JD) wrote: >>> From: "Jan D." >>> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:26:44 +0200 >>> >>> Also, many applications on Mac OS X does handle C-a, C-e, C-f, C-p and >>> so on the way Emacs does. >> >> That's because AFAIK Mac OSX is a descendant of the BSD Unix family. >> Quite a few Unix programs support Emacs-style key bindings. JD> That is probably one reason. But the Mail.app and TextEdit.app on Mac OSX JD> are not descendant from any BSD programs, so Apple is extending these JD> bindings to new programs as well. Cocoa applications have these bindings in text fields. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl